Op 2 april verschijnt FIXING ACADEMIA - een boek door 10 jonge onderzoekers over wat er nodig "gerepareerd" moet worden aan Nederlandse universiteiten. Alvast een paar steekwoorden: uitgevers, ouderschap, eerstegeneratiestudenten, beursaanvragen, werkdruk. Link: fixingacademia.com #universiteit

Accounting can increase employee wellbeing...!? Our paper on accounting & wellbeing of middle managers has been accepted at BMC Public Health (Open Access). Link: doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Pedro Sánchez, prime minister of Spain, shows what pragmatic and ideological leadership looks like www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

Just received an email from a prospective PhD student who was impressed with my TEDx talk on numbers. After I felt happy for a while about the compliment and the kind words, I came back to reality and realized I never gave a TEDx talk. #nextlevelaihallucinationsinemails

"If you understood everything I said, you'd be me." - Miles Davis

"Academics who publish frequently in two top business journals often have prior working relationships with the editors who handle their papers, according to a new analysis" 👉https://retractionwatch.com/2025/12/17/business-journals-scholars-relationships-elite-cohort-scholars-editors/

Yess.. this beauty will be published in 2026 📖👍 check out fixingacademia.com for more info. #booksky #fixingacademia

THE: "You have been selected based on your record of research publication." ME: --> OK, but did you read them? 😜 #meetmaatschappij #quantifiedsociety #ranking #ranglijst

Indicatorisme: "Bunq keert onder meer bonussen uit aan werknemers die recensies plaatsen over het bedrijf in de hoop zo de score (nu 3,7 uit 5 sterren) op te poetsen." www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

😐 "Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report"

Follow your dreams...👇

Vandaag in de @telegraaf.nl een stuk over de prestatiesamenleving, met bijdragen van psycholoog Nienke Wijnants en ondergetekende. Link: www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/waaro...

Sorbonne University decides to withdraw from THE World University Ranking: www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorb... Why would universities do this? I wrote a blog about it recently on social science space, available here: www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/stop...

Hoeveel sterren geeft u dit stuk? Over onze doorgeslagen obsessie met online reviews

'Let’s replace the frame of academia as a competition with a frame that recognizes and rewards cooperation. Let’s put an end to the ranking circus.' Stop the University Ranking Circus by @berendvdkolk.bsky.social #HigherEd www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/stop...

"we should ignore rankings as academics: they are misleading and harmful to academic values" - www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/stop...

#academicsky #quantifiedsociety #meetmaatschappij #academia 😁

"The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world (..) is being destroyed." - Hannah Arendt

MS Teams in a car - I cannot wait.. Never able to skip a meeting anymore if you're traveling. 🤨 "Car productivity" #surveillance

Look! I found a scatterplot during my holidays 🤓 (@ Museo Can Mario)

How does digitalization of finance departments take shape? To answer this question, we conducted a survey and various interviews with finance directors. We find, among others, that having a digitalization strategy matters. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

Well, well, well... 🤡

False dichotomies: a blessing or a curse?

Hoe verhouden controle en vertrouwen zich tot elkaar in de zorg? En welke rol speelt prestatiemeting? Dit thema komt aan de orde in het dubbelinterview in FIZIER, het blad van de beroepsvereniging van zorgfinancials. Interview (18-21): issuu.com/fizi4/docs/f... Onderzoek: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...

This was always my main beef with the quality improvement projects I was exposed to in the past--tracking data that didn't actually reflect changes that mattered, and forcing non-data to be data. I think we can do better than that.

Your daily reminder 👇 (Source: quantifiedsociety.com)

For those interested in management control & motivation: a paper was published last week by Hikaru Goto and Makoto Kuroki, replicating our motivation paper in a Japanese setting. Replication: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Our original paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Wat is indicatorisme? Lees en leer erover bij @binnenlandsbestuur.bsky.social : www.binnenlandsbestuur.nl/carriere/vu-... #indicatorisme #meetmaatschappij @vuamsterdam.bsky.social

🤩 Is there any place on earth with a higher (history+beauty)/m2 ratio than Rome?

What's a potential problem of quantitative research? "quantitative analysis and discourse often implies a degree of certainty in its generalisations that vastly exceeds the limits of assumptions and probabilities involved in the underlying calculations" - Parker & Northcott, doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ...

Not everything that matters can be measured, and not everything that can be measured matters. Source: The Quantified Society, p. 130. www.amazon.com/Quantified-S...

"Managers [falsely] conceive of themselves as morally neutral characters whose skills enable them to devise the most efficient means of achieving whatever end is proposed." - Alisdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)

They have offices..? 🤔😉

Could there be a tension between commercial academic publishing and research integrity? 🤔

Perhaps the worst data visualization job on the internet so far.. 🙄

Policy makers: Let's count the number of publications to assess research quality! Scientific community: OK! ... Total annual scientific publications rose from 2 million (2010) to 3.3 million (2022).

Collega's in andere disciplines: spreek je uit tegen de UNL opoffering van psychologie-opleidingen Vandaag wij, morgen jullie? Laat je stem horen bij je bestuur. Met @mkdeserno.bsky.social @bnbakker.bsky.social @berendvdkolk.bsky.social @scienceguide.bsky.social www.scienceguide.nl/2025/04/coll...

I'm trying to read a piece on Open Access in Nature... 😅

That aged well...? I made these two pictures 8 years ago in New York.

Predictive policing in the UK - what could possibly go wrong...? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Oh irony 😀 The first of the 11 texts written by me that LLMs stole from me is...a text about the importance of ethical considerations. 😀

🔥 These are golden times for wealthy people with inside information related to the US government.

Is Trump secretly an undercover activist working on the #degrowth agenda? 🔥

I haven't seen this being picked up by mainstream media in The Netherlands 👇😱 "The most at-risk OECD and partner countries are the Netherlands and Hungary, with approximately 20% of their land exposed to risk of extreme river flooding." Source: OECD, March 2025. Link: www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Volgens vier hoogleraren en een universitair docent is de bezuiniging op internationale studenten in strijd met het Europees recht. Lees hun opinie: advalvas.vu.nl/wetenschap-o...

Meanwhile in Groningen: the university strikes against the ridiculous budget cuts imposed by a.o. Pieter Omtzigt, Geert Wilders, and Eppo Bruins.

2025

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." - H.L. Mencken

Voor wie geïnteresseerd is in #data en #dashboards, op 22 mei een permanente educatie (PE) dag aan de VU in Amsterdam, met een mooie selectie sprekers uit de praktijk en wetenschap. Aanmelden kan via deze link: vu.nl/nl/onderwijs... #VU @vuamsterdam.bsky.social #accounting #control #PE

😱 Business School accreditation #AACSB removes #DEI commitments and principles. (First image is article from AACSB website in 2021, second is from the Financial Times this week.) Link: www.ft.com/content/5551...